History of FACT....

FACT was founded in 1987 by Paediatrician, Dr Geoff Foster. While practising at Mutare Provincial Hospital in 1987, Dr Foster noticed an increasing number of children infected with HIV. Being influenced by his Christian background, his compassion led him to develop a Christian based organisation to deal with the epidemic. He initiated and created HIV and AIDS wareness programs and mobilised many Christians to get involved with HIV and AIDS voluntary work. The inaugural meeting of Familiy Aids Councelling Trust (FACT), which later changed to Family Aids Caring Trust (FACT) as it is known today, was held in January 1988.

Originally FACT was driven by a small team of three staff members and volunteers, and has amazingly grown to become arguably one of the most progressive and leading HIV and AIDS organisations in Zimbabwe. It presently has a staff compliment of 110 people, Similarly its budget has grown from a mere US$4000 in 1988 to over US4,600,000 in 2010.

From this humble beginning, Fact has developed a reputation of being a Community-Oriented Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) with an ability to learn through its own programmes to continually improve. Owing to this learning attitude, FACT has extended its operations to manage programmes in Mutare, Rusape, Mutasa, Chimanimani, Chipinge, Nyanga, Chiredzi, Masvingo, and as well as some areas in Mozambique.